Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, became the largest Chinese company since Alibaba to list in the US, and nightmarish fears of traffic jams and clogged ports after Brexit never materialised thanks to several factors.  


Private equity breaks 40-year record with $500bn deals

https://www-ft-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/cd9571a3-726c-4995-9954-23a8dcf12b19?


Didi shares rise on New York trading debut

https://www-ft-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/dd7ea7fa-96c4-420c-94be-5730a284cc04


How Britain’s Channel ports avoided Brexit meltdown

https://www-ft-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/1001c054-0cf9-4f30-a62a-c9ac91e58223


Tim Berners-Lee’s web NFT sells for $5.4m

https://www-ft-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/0e45c25b-f66b-44d1-b662-0e7b095664f9

 

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